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Aktivisme er bra for deg!

Postet 3rd mars 2010. Arkivert under Ymse

Meir lykkeforskning: Denne gongen er det britiske forskarar som har slått fast at folk som er politisk aktive også er gladare. Avisa The Guardian skriv om forskinga i kommentaren “Brain food: does activism make you happy?” Etter å ha intervjua ei rekke studentar, fann forskarane ut at dei som kunne tenke seg å delta i ein demonstasjon også var dei med best humør! Kommentator Aditya Chakrabortty spørr om dette betyr at vi blir lykkelegare av å drive med politikk?

So there’s a link – but can politics actually make a person happier? In the third study, the academics took a bunch of students and divided them up into groups. The first were encouraged to write to the management of the college cafeteria asking for tastier food. The next lot wrote asking the cafe to source local or Fairtrade products. They were then tested on their wellbeing, and the group who had involved themselves in the political debate were far and away the strongest on the “vitality” scale: they felt more alive and enriched than those who merely complained about the menu.

Les meir om forskningsresultata i tidsskriftet Political Psychology.

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